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When they evacuated, what most people took out was what they could put in a car. ... I don't think any of them expected total devastation.


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TANITH LEE When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
TANITH LEE As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to rev...
TANITH LEE Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
TANITH LEE I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
TANITH LEE I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as ...
TANITH LEE If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say i...
TANITH LEE The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
TANITH LEE People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural b...
TANITH LEE It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm ...
TANITH LEE Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them....
TANITH LEE I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. A...
TANITH LEE Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fictio...
TANITH LEE Pirates have always fascinated me.
TANITH LEE I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more d...
TANITH LEE There is too little courtship in the world.
VERNON LEE The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
VERNON LEE Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of wa...
HARPER LEE Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
HARPER LEE Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it th...
HARPER LEE You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
HARPER LEE Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't ...
HARPER LEE I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's ...
LEE TREVINO There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Supe...
JIM LEE It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.
SPIKE LEE Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, ...
LEE DANIELS The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in ...
HARPER LEE I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor a...
SPIKE LEE Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.
BRANDON LEE I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.
SPIKE LEE Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still you...
ANNA LEE